Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills

Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by hyperbole on Monday May 09, 2016 @01:04PM (#11661343)

> First of all, diabetes pills are not really 'health products.' They are more like 'you fucked up your health, now try not to die' products

You can make the same argument about low cost sugary foods that originated from the same conglomerates - trade lower prices & time to avoid starving... if you can't afford to eat healthy you eat what's fast, affordable and tastes good.

You can have your cake and eat it too, you just won't live very long...

I agree there isn't a 'sickle' marketing department where in the company creates the problem and caters at every stopping point until your ultimate demise - unless of course Nestle owns a collection of funeral homes...

Hanlons razor: never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by gerardnll on Monday May 09, 2016 @02:07PM (#11661838)

In Spain we say "Pan para hoy, hambre para mañana". Which literally translated would mean "Bread for today, hunger tomorrow". Eat cheap and in the future your health will be paying for that, and it will be more expensive than eating healthy during your life.

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by TeMPOraL on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:37PM (#11662510)

This is the kind of advice the rich can follow. For the poor, it's not a choice between cheap/bad and expensive/good, it's the choice between cheap/bad and death from starvation right now.

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by vkou on Monday May 09, 2016 @05:46PM (#11663482)

Death from starvation isn't exactly a widespread problem in the developed world. Homelessness is the more realistic outcome.

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by TeMPOraL on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:05PM (#11663596)

You're right. It doesn't change the calculation much though - especially when we're thinking about poor families; feeding yourself or your children badly is suboptimal, but it beats the hell out of raising them on the street or giving up to the foster care.

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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by Gibbon1 on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:00PM (#11662230)

One argument I read is that when you take profits from the food industry and subtract health care costs due to industrial diets we're (just the US) 1.4 trillion a year in the red.

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